Emily & Gene Trowbridge Launch the “Hey! Am I Adopted? Podcast”

Hey, I'd like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres. And if you'd like to apply to be a guest in the show, just head on over to missionmatters. com and click on be our guest to apply. All right. So today's guests are Emily and Jean Trowbridge, and I'm so proud and happy to announce they've recently launched their podcast. Hey, am I adopted? And it's been so much fun. I've been following the show involved of course, with with the distribution and first off, I just want to say Emily and Jean, thank you so much for making some time for me out of your recording schedule to, to be on the show. So thank you. Well, thank you for having us. Yeah. We have so much to talk about through the first couple of episodes and we're, we're definitely going to do a deep dive into the show. And the, the, the format, the vision, I know it's a newer show. I definitely want my audience to check it out. But before we get into all that, we'll start this episode, the way that we start them all with what we like to call our mission matters minute. So Emily Jean we at mission matters, we amplify stories for entrepreneurs, executives, and experts. That's what we do. Emily Jean. What mission matters to you both? So our mission matters is to create a platform for adoptees to listen, relate, and share their stories. That's right, Emily, and I just want to amplify the fact that our mission is for adoptees. There are a lot of great podcasts out there for adoptive parents and what to do when you're looking to adopt a baby, but that's not what we are. We're a family of four adoptees. And so Kaye, my wife, and I, of course, are adopted parents, but we, Concentrate on telling the story of being four adoptees and all the stories are different, right, Adam? Oh my gosh, they are. And I, and I think this is a great, this is a great place to start to start is why did you feel, I know, I know you both put in a lot of work into kind of looking at different podcasts that were out there in general and then adoptees at one that's specifically telling the story of adoptees. Why did you feel that was so important to get out there? I'll take this one. So I kind of, my dad, you know, he's, he's like, he's a securities attorney. And so he's been doing, he's ran his own podcast now for years and interviews people. And I get to watch him on stage all the time and this and that. And, and over the course of our life, we've talked about adoption. It's very big in our family, big thing. And as I started doing some research for myself, for personal reasons, just curious, there wasn't anything out there. And, or there was a podcast about, like my dad said, adopted parents or what it's like to adopt a child. And it was kind of almost sad. I was like, wow, there's like no one that I can relate to. Or someone that I might have my story besides my own family. And so I said to my dad, I go, what about us? Why don't you talk all the time? I talk a lot. So why don't, why don't we create a podcast? What do you think? And at first he kind of was like, I don't, I don't know, Emily, I don't know who would listen to this. You know, like, I don't, I don't get it. And then we kind of started talking about it. And then actually for 2023 for Christmas, my dad gifted me the experience. And ultimately my biggest thing too, is I got to spend time with my family talking about it. And I didn't know that it was going to be that big, but that's really been the biggest impact for me. So that was the big reason behind it for me, for me. What about you, Jean? Like what, as you kind of dug through this, Yes. When Emily brought up the issue about two years ago. I thought it was like many other issues that Emily brought up. If I just ignored it, it'll go away. I'm going to fall out of my chair. And we're all busy. Emily is a very busy person on this. And so I just let it all go away, but it never went away. And it kind of got me when she said if we had this podcast and we had these episodes, After I'm gone, she'd be able to Look at me and listen to me and rewind our stories, and that would be the same with Kay and myself, because we're both in our mid 70s, and that's, you know, that could, could happen. We've all been adopted from day one, we all know that, but In different stages of our life, it's meant different things. So that's what kind of got me. And then quite honestly, I figured if we did it, she'd shut up about it. Quite honestly, Adam, and I told you before I told Emily, I said, well, that's good. We've got about four episodes. There's four of us. We have an episode on each of us and then it's over. What are we going to do next? But I did see one other thing. I did see one or two episodes, one or two podcasts that say they're talking about adoptees, but they're not talking to adoptees. They're talking, we wrote books about being adopted. And, and that isn't necessarily where we're, where we're going is, as you can tell from the first three or four

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